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Buoyant Preps to Manage Linkerd Service Mesh in the Cloud
Buoyant announced today it is making available a public beta of a cloud service through which multiple instances of the open source Linkerd service mesh can be managed. William Morgan, CEO of ...
Linkerd Benchmarks Back Service Mesh Performance Claims
The use of service mesh is increasingly seen as an essential tool to manage and orchestrate microservices in highly distributed containerized environments. According to a recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey, ...
Will Istio or Linkerd Dominate Service Mesh?
Istio has seen an uptick in adoption and now has the largest market share — albeit, by a slim margin — in the service mesh space, according to the results of the ...
How Linkerd Approaches Extensibility
Balancing minimalism with the pressure to deliver new features is not a concern unique to service mesh. It’s a question any team overseeing well-adopted open-source software must address at some point. Still, ...
Linkerd Update Simplifies Service Mesh Extensions
The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform. Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides ...
Linkerd 2.10 Introduces Lighter Weight, More Secure Deployments with Extensions, Multi-cluster TCP, and Opaque Ports
The world’s smallest, simplest service mesh enhances security and sheds non-critical components to deliver flexibility for more use cases San Francisco, Calif. — March 9, 2021 — The maintainers of Linkerd, the ...
Linkerd Service Mesh to Get a Steering Committee
The organizations that maintain the Linkerd service mesh announced today they will create a steering committee to direct how the open source service mesh evolves. Linkerd, originally developed by Buoyant, Inc., has ...
Exploring SMI, the Service Mesh Industry Spec
Service mesh options for Kubernetes keep multiplying. There is now Istio, Linkerd, Consul and new entrants including AWS App Mesh. Naturally, each service mesh solution has its own unique approach. Thus, problems ...
Red Hat Makes Service Mesh Play
Red Hat this week announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, which provides a control plane to ease management and orchestration of distributed instances of proxy servers necessary for ...
What is Service Mesh and Why Do We Need It?
In a microservices ecosystem, usually cross-cutting concerns such as service discovery, service-to-service and origin-to-service security, observability and resiliency are deployed via shared asset such as an API gateway or ESB. As a ...
